Transcribing and saving voice memos

In this video, I'll talk about recipes for managingpersonal information such as contacts, calendar events, and tasks.This course is designed to get you up to speed with IFTTT as quickly as possible.As I mentioned in the last video to keep the courseconcise, I'll use recipes blueprints to expose you to several different recipes.But for the first recipe, let's look at therecipe blueprint and create the recipe in IFTTT together.The IFTTT phone channel has a trigger thatfires when you call IFTTT and leave a voicemail.

You can find your IFTTT phone number listed on the phone call channel page.So, let's go to IFTTT.We'll go to Channels.And let's scroll down to the Phone Callchannel so that we can view the channel page.Much like the SMS channe before using thePhone Call channel, we need to activate it.To activate the phone call channel, simply clickthe activate button on the phone call channel page.It asks us for our phone numbers, so enter your phone number into the field shown.

Click the send PIN button and aftersubmitting your phone number, IFTTT will call yourphone and give you the pin number that you need to input into the pin field.So my pin was 4043.After you've put in your pin, click the activate button.After activating the channel when you go to the phone call channel page,you'll see your phone number and the phone number associated with your IFTTT account.

So it's the IFTTT phone number that you'll use to trigger various actions in IFTTT.Now let's go to the Evernote channel.I'm going to click on channels again and I'm looking for Evernote.As you probably know, Evernote is a cloud based tool with desktop and mobile applications for creating,thinking, and organizing various types of notes.In order to activate the Evernote channel, weneed to give IFTTT information about our Evernote account.

In order to do that, login to Evernote as you would on the Evernote websiteusing your username and password, then click the Sign In button.Depending on how you've set up your Evernote security,you may be requested to enter an additional code.So I have 2 factor authentication set up on my Evernote, and for that reasonI'm going to have to get a pin for my phone, to put into this field here.

Once you've successfully logged in, you'll get a message thatsays that you're essentially authorizing IFTT to access your Evernote account.That way, IFTT will be able to automatically createnotes and use information from Evernote in other IFTT channels.So I'm going to click Authorize.Now when I go to the Evernote channel inIFTTT, I can see that my account is now linked.So let's go back to the recipe.The IFTTT statement for this recipe is, if I leave a voice mail message on my IFTTTphone number, then create a new note with the transcribed message and audio link.

So let's see how this works.We've already activated the phone call channelin Evernote and talked a bit about those.Let's put these two together and create this recipe.The blueprint tells us everything that we need to know.We're going to use the Leave IFTTT anyvoicemail trigger associated with the phone call channel.We don't need to provide any trigger fields.But when we leave a voicemail message, this trigger will fire and the receivedat message and MP3 URL will be ingredientsthat we use in the Evernote action create a link note.

The action fields for that action are title, body, link URL, Notebook and tags.The notebook and tags are underlined.That indicates that those are fields thatyou complete when you're creating the recipe.They don't necessarily require dynamic data from the ingredients.But those ingredients will be used in the title, body and link URL action fields.So let's create the recipe in IFTTT.

Click the Create button.Click this to get started.So what's our trigger channel?Our trigger channel is Phone call.Now if we hadn't already activated it, at this point IFTTT would promptus to activate it so that we could use it in the recipe.But since we've already activated there's no need to do that.So theres one trigger associated with phonecall, and that's leave IFTTT any voicemail.So I click that.And now, it tells us that there's no fields to complete sowe just create trigger And now the trigger is shown for us.

And it's clear that we're using the phone call channel to leave a voicemail.Now let's complete the action.I click that.And what's the action channel that we need?Evernote.What's our action?Well in case you forgot, we can flip back to the recipe blueprintThe action that we need for this recipe is create a link note.So I'm going to click the link labeledCreate a link note, to specify that action.The action fields for the Create a link note are as follows.

Link URL, description, notebook, and tags.So these again are listed above the Evernote icon in the recipe blueprint.Note that notebook and tags are underlined.That indicates that the values for those fields are typically set up in the recipe.And they don't include dynamic values thatcome from the ingredients associated with the trigger.So, we have link url.Evernote has automatically anticipated that we want to use MP3 URL'sfrom the phone call trigger, to be put in the link URL, action field ofEvernote, and the transcribed message ingredient is message.

And that's going to go into the description for the note.The notebook action field is IFTTT Phone Call.So this is the notebook that Evernote will use for storingall of the notes that are created by this IFTTT recipe.Finally, there are the tags.These tags will allow you to determine whichof your notes were generated using the recipe.So any notes that come from this recipe will have those two tags.After reviewing your action fields, click Create Action.

After reviewing my recipe to make sure that everythingis as it should be, I can click Create Recipe.And I have successfully created a new recipebased on the instructions described in this recipe blueprint.In this video, we learned how to activate the phone call in Evernote channels.We also used a recipe blueprint to create a new recipe in IFTTT.Let's now look at some other recipes thatyou can use with contacts and calendar events.

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4/9/2014

Organize your life across digital platforms with IFTTT. This free online service that lets you connect phones and tablets, apps, and services and set up "if this, then that" recipes that trigger a wide variety of possible results, from waking you up early if it's snowing to sending you an email if you're tagged in an Instagram photo. Charles G. Hollins shows you how to set up IFTTT's triggers, actions, and ingredients, and how to create new and customize existing IFTTT recipes. In this course, you'll explore IFTTT recipes like getting notified if your favorite stock drops, creating notes in your favorite cloud storage app, automating tweets, and even receiving a text message when a motion sensor is triggered at your home. Start with these recipes and learn how to create your own!